Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-08-04
McGarigle is safe in Canada.


Mrs. DIR. Crane has returned home
after very pleasant visit.
Charlie Cox has new canopy top rig
with three commodious seats.
Harry Fuller, of Racine, is expected
tonight. He will visit at the Strong's.
Fifty persons visited the Grant Coun-
ty Asylum during the month OF July.
Otto Atkinson. of Moth Audover, WIS.,
tied Virgil Showalter Saturday and
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Miner started last
week for their new home at Chetopa,
Kansas.
The Lancaster man who has not been
trout fishing this season is clearly out
of style.
VIM. Beers is soliciting orders on fruit
trees in this section for the old aud
reliable Rochester nursery.
Mail Agent Lusted has moved into
the west end of the academy house
recently vacated by John Howe.
There are some unwholesome odors
about town that must be attended to, or
certain parties will be complained of.
Mrs. VIM. Bates, a sister of Supt.
Harper, and her three children, of
Waterloo, Iowa. are visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Harper.
Supt. Harper has received sufficient
number of "blue books" to supply all
the teachers in Grant county. Teachers
call at his Office for them.
Several carriage loads of Lancaster
people drove down to Platteville to-day
to attend the wedding of Miss Mamie
Campbell to Prof. David w. Mackay,
of Milwaukee. at the Episcopal church.
A gravel train on the c. B. & N.
backed onto a COW at Cassville last
Saturday night, and threw the caboose
of the track. One man was considerably
injured.
George Goble is back from his visit
at Beloit, Kan. He says the crops in
that vicinity are suffering greatly from
ack of rain.
Hon. r. M. Day was in town Mon
day.
Rev. Chas. Harris of Bloomington is
very i'll of some spinal trouble. A
council of physicians has pronounced his
case very serious.
Miss Susan Thomas of Muscalonge is
quite sick.
The officers of the Agricultural Society
intend Governing the grand stand with
canvas, and making other improve.
ments. The fair will be Sept. 81. %,
90.
Prof McGregor, of the Platteville
Normal passed through Lancaster to.
day on his return from a visit to the
Cassville Normal Review. That school
by the way, is q success. The attend.
ance is about 20.
Mr.. Mcclure, who sells literature and
fruit on the Milwaukee passenger train
called, by request, upon Mrs. Alphonso
Potter at her lodging in Milwaukee last
week. She seemed to be a very nice
lady. She was quite surprised when
Mr.. Mcclure inquired about the ''twins'
and stated that they had no children.
That story of Potter's about the twins
was probably the nearest he came to
telling the truth-he came within two
of it.
Mrs. j. w. Bracket and family, Of
Bloomington, are visiting at A. C..
Morse's.
Mr.. Josiah Thomas, of Hazel Green,
was in the city yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dixon, of Chicago are
at Mrs. w. B. Baxter's. They spend
few weeks here every summer.
Prof. f. M. Wood who was principal
of our schools for four years, with his
wife, formerly Miss Olive Muesse, and
their little boy, are visiting their Lam
caster friends. Mr.. Wood has resigned
his position at California, Penn to ac-
cept prcfessorship of Mathematics in
a college at Baldwin, Kansas.
Lon Weisbenner, whose home is near
Gray's mill, Lancaster, has beer paying
his friends in this vicinity short visit
He came with Mrs. Merton, nee Schaub,
who lives in Iowa, where Mr.. Weisben-
ner has been working on farm.
Hon. Luther Basford, of Glen Haven,
is in town to-day.
Geo. S. Whitcher and Pat Bartle Y
met at the county seat again Tuesday
Probate, not re-probate business brought
them.
OlidlitO UuttCiiCtIt SdlOStldu anu part
ner in the firm of Mitchell & Sphinx, St.
Paul, brought Mrs. Mitchell with him
this trip. She is visiting at Judge Car
ter's
Miss Bell Flesh, of Piqua, Ohio, is
visiting Miss Mamie Book.
Messrs. Ryland and Phelps have sold
their handsome black span of horses to
BOSS" Reyes, of Madison. The price
paid is said to have been $500. Mr..
Reyes probably has the handsomest
team in Madison.
During the shower last Friday night
the house of Henderson Halferty in
North Lancaster was struck by light
ening in two places. Very little dam
age was done. Mrs. Thomas Rich
mond living in the town of Mt Hope
hada COW killed the same night.
Read the premium list of the Grant
County Agricultural Society in this
weeks HERALD. and bring something
here to the fair to compete for a
premium. Our fair is one of the best,